Textile
Before the Revolution- Before the Industrial Revolution, textile was made in a cottage Industry. Threads were made by merchants supplying the raw material to families who sorted, cleaned, dyed, carded, and finally spun in threads
-People who made the textile often worked by their own schedule, so it was difficult for the merchants to regulate process and pick up finished products
-An average person back then only owned 1 or 2 shirts because of the amount of labor it took and therefore the high prices
- Mainly flax and wool were the only raw materials used and available
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After the Revolution-Spinning machines such as the spinning jenny invented by James Hargreaves were able to spun a dozen threads at once
-Power looms were invented in the 1780s by Edmund Cartwright for weaving threads into cloths
- All of the work was done in one factory, and only one person was needed to work the spinning machine so he was practically doing that was able to spin a dozen threads at once than if he was hand producing the threads
- Cotton goods was able to be imported from India in the 17th century. However, imports of cotton goods was eventually banned because of rivalries between cotton and linen, but a cotton industry was established using materials imported from colonies.
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